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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Tecnologia de l'Arquitectura

Document typeDoctoral thesis

Defense date2016-02-05

PublisherUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Rights accessOpen Access

Abstract

The tourism sector has been central to development of the Spanish coastal economies. However, due to the negative impact that this activity has had on coastal ecosystems, aging infrastructure, and overexploitation of natural resources, coastal tourist destination mature (OTCM) have a growing loss of competitiveness. Thus, it is now essential to develop new and innovative methods of analysis and management, in addition to providing a conceptual development can be concretized in technical and operational tools. These tools should be part of urban renewal plans, and must be able to respond to the requirements for the development and management of tourism in the territory, offering new ways of working relationships between tourism, land and environment (KO, 2003).
An analysis of some of the processes documented in the Mediterranean coast, it follows that the success of the process of rejuvenation in the destinations usually responds to existence, as an instrument of fundament al political intervention of a shared vision for the destination, which is translated into a specific model of territorial action. That is, the existence of a specific, functional and operative deficit urban model. In response to this finding, the instruments of territorial policy and urban management are key to the rejuvenation of the destination (Trinitat & Clave, 2014).
The differential nature of the tourist development is to be incorporated into the instruments of territorial policy and urban management, to address the particular problems of these urban-tourism systems. These tools are essential to reformulate the destination, while not only urbanized space but capable of urban nature (Trinitat & Clave, 2014). The urban nature of the destinations is included conceptually within the postmodern discourse because spaces are eminently consumer and not linked to large production, trade or governmental administration (Mullins, 1991). Therefore, tourism developments have yet to find their own tools s lope urban policy.
The analysis of the historical trajectory of target-Costa Canaria Maspalomas has been useful to understand the situation of success, consolidation and decline in the present moment, and has been a key factor in understanding the complexity of the phenomenon and provides guidelines for projection, both at present and in the future, strategies for action and transformation of its tourism model. These phases or periods distinguish a first initial moment, linked to tourism exclusively, which is replaced by the so-called modern era of tourism, which is when the holiday model of sun and beach stands as the paradigm that gives greater identity the destination. Overcoming, in a third time, this time involves the emergence of a new dynamic which, while definitely consolidate the model involving obsolescence and search for new alternatives, both territorial regeneration and positive impact on the sector economic tourism.
Tourism policies implemented collide with highly regulated planning system, which implies the following result: reduced restricting creativity and entrepreneurship. This hinders the proper coordination of supply and demand in tourist areas, leading to freeze them and prevented its regeneration and adaptation to new needs, causing a major distortion between supply and demand. For these reasons, a simpler system more flexible urban planning and procedural, with fewer loads, and execution of the same volunteer is needed